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~Abigail Rose~

To say life didn’t always go to plan didn’t quite cover it.

Especially not at this juncture.

But as it was, circumstances had led us to this.

Ledmeto this.

Objectively, it was the only viable solution to our problem, to the poison that had infected the supernatural world and cost us all so much.

Subjectively, however, they couldn’t accept that.

El was all about finding another way.

But this time there wasn’t one.

There was just this.

And I’d made my peace with that.

The truth was, ever since I’d lost the love of my life, a piece of me had been missing, my thirst for life and the world I existed in had left me. And the struggle to remain in the light despite the emptiness that I felt had been wearing on me more and more with every passing day. Only my daughter and El had managed to keep me holding on.

But even that wasn’t enough now.

It couldn’t be either. Ihadto do this.

For her as much as anyone else.

She’d been harmed so severely by black magic, that which Constantine Vale had wielded against her, and it would always be her greatest weakness and point of vulnerability.

No more. Not when I wiped it from the face of the earth.

“It’s time,” I told El as he moved to call his power.

Even if he did, he couldn’t stop me, not if I employed the full breadth of my abilities.

He stilled, however, and stared at me sadly, an understanding passing between us.

I raised my shields, allowing only the black magic to pass through.

And then I sped up the siphoning until it was assaulting me at full force, black magic flowing through my system rapid-fire, as I took all there was existing in the supernatural world unto myself.

I could hear the three of them yelling at me to stop, but I blocked it all out.

Even as they began to assault my shield in a desperate bid to stop me.

I choked as the concentration of black magic started to impact my physical faculties and I collapsed to my knees.

But still I didn’t stop.

Not until I had it all.

Not until my mission was complete.

My final act upon this world.

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